The Cow Spa

“It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.”
― Sylvia Townsend Warner

Teatime

“Out of the welter of rapture and anger and heartbreak and hurt pride that he had left, depression emerged to sit upon her shoulder like a carrion crow.”
― Margaret Mitchell

The Chicken Whisperer

“The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open. Do it. Throw yourself.”
― C. JoyBell C.

ER

“Even when a river of tears courses through this body, the flame of love cannot be quenched.”
― Izumi Shikibu

Inseparable

"Do you ever just put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that’s what love is like; everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but for some reason you just keep going"
— Alice Hoffman

Standoff

“To see the beauty of the world is to put your hands on lines that run uninterrupted through life and through death. Touching them is an act of hope, for perhaps someone on the other side, if there is another side, is touching them, too.”
― Mark Helprin

Hi Jordan!

“One thing you will discover is that life is based less than you think on what you’ve learned and much more on what you have inside you from the beginning."
― Mark Helprin

Bonded

“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”
― Margaret Atwood

Split Milk

love is not the wolf but the water

it does not tear you limb from limb

but it seeps around you and fills your every crevice

wrapping your wholeness in itself

it leaves you bright

and magnified.

love is not the wolf but the water

–Sarah Jean Simmons

Mother/Daughter

“Are you mine?
Yes.
Are you mine?
Yes.
Are you mine?
No.
No?
No. I loved being yours. But now I’m mine, which is all I ever was in the end.”
― Emma Forrest